PROGETTO DI PONTI

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 2° Year
Teaching Staff: Pier Paolo ROSSI
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: ICAR/09 - Structural engineering
Taught classes: 28 hours
Exercise: 30 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

The course aims to :

  • provide knowledge regarding the historical development of bridges and types commonly used in structural engineering
  • provide knowledge regarding the construction techniques of bridges
  • provide knowledge regarding the actions on bridges
  • provide knowledge regarding the main theoretical models applied to the structural analysis of bridges
  • provide knowledge regarding the design of bridges, in view of present codes
  • provide knowledge regarding the assessment of damage of existing bridges.

Course Structure

Theoretical and practical lessons


Detailed Course Content

Theoretical lessons:

  • Historical development of bridges
  • Types commonly used in structural engineering: girder bridges, rigid-frame bridges, arch bridges, cable-stayed bridges and suspension bridges
  • Parts of the bridge: deck, piers, abutments, bearing devices, expansion joints etc.
  • Codes regarding design and construction of bridge
  • Loads on bridges
  • Design of bridges with composite decks
  • Influence lines and infleunce surfaces
  • Uniform and non-uniform torsion in bridge decks
  • Local instability in steel girders
  • Bearing devices
  • Design of foundations, piers and abutments
  • Seismic design of bridges
  • Constructional techniques
  • Methods for the assessment of damage of existing bridges

Practical lessons:

  • Design of bridges with composite steel-concrete decks (reinforced concrete slab, longitudinal steel girder, tranverse beams, bearing devices and piers)

Textbook Information

  • Ioannis Vayas, Aristidis Iliopoulos. Design of composite steel concrete braidges to Eurocodes. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN: 978-1-4665-5744-4
  • Raithel Aldo- Costruzioni di Ponti-Liguori Editore-Napoli 1970
  • Raithel Aldo.Ponti a travata - volume primo -Liguori Editore-Napoli 1978
  • Petrangeli Mario Paolo. Progettazione e Costruzione di Ponti-Masson
  • Priestley M. J. N., Seible F., Calvi G. M. Seismic Design and Retrofit of Bridges; John Wiley & Sons; 1996. ISBN: 978-0-471-57998-4
  • Normative Tecniche in vigore (D.M.14/01/2008 e ss.mm.ii, Circolare 2/2/2009, Eurocodici)